Which is the virgin street cabinet?

[JayJay]

Carl, im sure its one of ours, there is a few like that ive worked in Bristol which I actually thought was Cell Communications (thats what happens when your not from the area!) once opened revealed it was a mux

[essjay]

Originally Posted by TJS

Ill attempt to brave opening the brown box again.....

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Please excuse the picture quality LOL i tried to be discreet and use compact camera because i Imagine a few eyebrows would be raised if i was out there with my slr taking photos of a box. LOL

edit: made picture lower resolution

Do you live in a flat by any chance ??

Or have two phone lines ?


Its a bit difficult to see from that angle, but what I can tell you is that you have 2 x RG6 siamese running in in what looks like 2 x telco lines and a RG11 DTV/BB feed into a 2 way splitter

White RG6 into the wall behind the drop box and another RG6 black feed going elsewhere



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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

So your brown cables - did Nynex do FM radio separately? Or is that even how analogue TV was provided? Essjay?

FM, Analogue, DTV and broadband all down the same cable.

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Either 2 phones lines or you've had a re pull for RG11 and they have never took out the original RG6 which would make sense if you have phone live as RG11 Siamese is like rocking horse ****

[TJS]

Originally Posted by essjay

Do you live in a flat by any chance ??

Or have two phone lines ?


Its a bit difficult to see from that angle, but what I can tell you is that you have 2 x RG6 siamese running in in what looks like 2 x telco lines and a RG11 DTV/BB feed into a 2 way splitter

White RG6 into the wall behind the drop box and another RG6 black feed going elsewhere

Nope; semi detached house LOL

Although the people who lived in the house prior to me did have a business from the house + a VM business connection so you could be right about 2 phone lines; I never thought of that

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There is one of these on the internal wall directly behind the brown box; and one upstairs in what used to be the office for the people who had the house previously;

The socket just below the virgin box is a hardwired GB/s ethernet socket that is in from the previous owners

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+ there is a phone socket on the other side of the window

[essjay]

That makes perfect sense, you must be quite far from the cabinet to warrant a RG11 feed.

[TJS]

Originally Posted by essjay

That makes perfect sense, you must be quite far from the cabinet to warrant a RG11 feed.

Roughly 120 or so meters; The thick black RG11 cable has a smaller cable stuck on the side of it and goes through a green hose in the front garden bit of my house under into the street; the 2 brown thinner cables just seem to emerge from under ground

[Sephiroth]

Difficult to tell, but it looks possible that the RG6 coming out of the splitter feeds another part of your house (it goes up the wall, I think) or another house. Follow it. It's outside grade cable. The brown cables seem to be telephone. The white cable goes into your house.

Again, if you can be arsed, you could feel where the second black cable ( RG6) goes.

EDIT: I read Essjay's assessment after I posted the above.

[essjay]

120mtr is about right

[TJS]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Difficult to tell, but it looks possible that the RG6 coming out of the splitter feeds another part of your house (it goes up the wall, I think) or another house. Follow it. It's outside grade cable. The brown cables seem to be telephone. The white cable goes into your house.

Again, if you can be arsed, you could feel where the second black cable ( RG6) goes.

EDIT: I read Essjay's assessment after I posted the above.

The one that goes up the wall is to the upstairs of my house Each house around here has a separate brown box on it

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How come the brown ones don't go through the same duct as the black cable? The thick black one with the little cable on the side goes out the box under the path then down into some plastic piping that goes under the street but the brown ones just seem to appear out of the ground; theres no apparent duct that they go to or come from; unless there is 2 ducts running to my house perhaps?

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p.s. the second brown one isnt particularly visable but its just behind the black cable going in can be seen more clearly from this photo http://i.imgur.com/3CA0M.jpg

[essjay]

if you have a look on the street you will find your swept tee (could be triangular or round) all the cable will come out of there.

The route they take into your property will depend on how good or how lazy the installers were.

But it defiantly looks like at some point you have had at least two repulls.

[TJS]

Originally Posted by essjay

if you have a look on the street you will find your swept tee (could be triangular or round) all the cable will come out of there.

The route they take into your property will depend on how good or how lazy the installers were.

But it defiantly looks like at some point you have had at least two repulls.

Theres no visible marks on the road; but then i'm not entirely sure what i'm looking for LOL.

The black cable theres about 2" of green tubing coming out of the ground just behind the front wall to the garden then the cable comes out and goes under the path tot he side of the house then up from under the path into the box; but the grown cables just seem to appear with no viable duct that they go into

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http://www.sde-civils.co.uk/images/p.../ducting-9.jpg just like that except about an inch diameter

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by essjay

if you have a look on the street you will find your swept tee (could be triangular or round) all the cable will come out of there.

The route they take into your property will depend on how good or how lazy the installers were.

But it defiantly looks like at some point you have had at least two repulls.

There's a good photo here. See post #1

I tried to get it into this post but the advanced feature on the forum didn't want to browse.

[TJS]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

There's a good photo here. See post #1

I tried to get it into this post but the advanced feature on the forum didn't want to browse.

Little triangle thing is just infront of my house like litrally 10/15 meters directly infront

[essjay]

like this

[Spiral Ghost]

Hi everyone, since you were talking about Virgin street cabinets and boxes I was wondering if any of you can recognize this type of box which sits about three meters high on the side of many buildings over here in Scotland. I erased the first two numbers from the stickers. Any help is appreciated.

[Sephiroth]

It's got the 1980s BT logo on. DP usually means Distribution Point and I presume there are no telephone poles in that street.